Oral History in a Wounded Country - Interactive Interviewing in South Africa (Paperback)

With the end of apartheid and the exciting, but elusive, advent of a new nation, South Africa is witness to the emergence of a new generation of oral historians whose aim is to develop a broader, more inclusive and culturally sensitive understanding of the South African past. In a country still wounded by a legacy of racial discrimination, the retrieving of oral memories is a task more urgent than ever.""Oral History in a Wounded Country"" shows how the cultural, political, socio-economic and intellectual evolutions that gave birth to South Africa as we know it today affect the oral history process. It seeks to help practitioners, whether they use oral history as one technique among others to gain a better knowledge of the past, or envisage oral history as an academic discipline in its own right, to reflect critically on their practice and find better ways of handling the interview process. The challenge is to appreciate the complexity of South Africa's diverse histories, while being attentive to the dynamics of the interview and their effect on both interviewers' and interviewees' sense of identity.

General

Imprint:	University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	September 2008
First published:	December 2008
Editors:	Philippe Denis • Radikobo Ntsimane
Dimensions:	230 x 150 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-1-86914-147-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history
LSN:	1-86914-147-4
Barcode:	9781869141479

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